A beautiful lady named Aliza Closs

Aliza questions her incident of why it had come to this moment,

"It's quite a fall you got yourself into. What were you doing?"

"I was drying my wet clothes from last night.

I wasn't paying attention to my direction and the floor was slippery so I might've ended up dying if it wasn't for you."

Leaving with an agitated smile.

"I see."

Leaving a suspicion toward Claire, Aliza gives a clue of why she needs to stay away from the 10th district.

"So what brings you here in the 10th district? This place isn't safe to stroll around."

Aliza continues her conversation.

"I am currently studying the isolation of the 10th district and some… other things."

"Oh, I see. If you do mind, I have the information you need regarding the 10th district.

Or even better, I can assist you on any problems whatsoever if you follow me."

Suddenly two options were popping into her vision as Aliza proposes what Claire needs and thus the action of following a shady lady.

A. Trust her

B. Don't trust her

And so she decides to trust her.

As the two of them led to the place where Claire was familiar, it was the first option from last night, the abandoned catacombs.

A way where deep darkness was ahead, Aliza leads the way by casting a glowing orb that illuminates an iris purple color as it shows the way despite deep darkness surrounding the two of them, Aliza confronts as heading towards an unimaginable unknown inside this abandoned catacombs.

It was about half an hour when she finally stopped walking and sees a large steel door that has a four-coded lock attached to the handle.

She opens it as entering.

Claire follows her and sees a decoration of an old small church as the sunlight stretches towards the figure of some kind of an old tomb.

Aliza stops as soon as we are close to the closed coffin.

She suddenly goes beyond the curtains at the right side of the room and brings out a blood suction at this medical wheeled table.

She puts the suction and the needle on her wrist and the other end of the suction is a medium-sized glass.

Blood gets through the suction hole and spills down inside the glass until it gets full, she stops the machine.

Aliza opens half of the coffin and sees a guy sleeping, then she knocks towards the glass and so this guy instantly opens his eyes as deliberately looking at Aliza and Claire at a rapid speed and then he asks with an annoying tone,

"I'm hungry."

In his calm expression, Aliza gives her glass of blood to the strange guy.

After that, he shuts himself back in the coffin and sleeps.

Going to her office near the tomb is a neat palace that contains a bunch of books that looked like a library of some sort.

"Oh him? He's Lunar Cross, one of my allies in my unit.

So here may I ask, what is your aim?

If you ask me, you need an ally to assist you towards your goal. We share the same need, Claire."

Aliza wonders what Claire would do next.

"I don't usually make plans and just make countermeasures of what's to happen, but you're right, I need someone to aid me if I need to survive my life expectancy warning.

I don't even know how many enemies out there."

Claire is concerned towards the next danger she will face as her fingers tremble from the lack of progress.

Aliza gave her a little bit of insight to see the light and opportunity of this pact.

"I propose a pact.

A temporary pact for us to get what we both want and help each other.

With that, you won't be troubled by facing adversaries.

Does that sound enticing?"

Claire ponders quite a bit if this is a good idea.

Otherwise, trusting a close of being a stranger doesn't do any good for any scenario but she has to risk it.

"I'd like to have a pact then."

"I'll give you a hint of what a pact is like. First… I'll give you a code?"

As giving long stare at Claire, Aliza asks as if she was waiting for something from her.

"Code? What do you mean by code?"

Claire was left dumbfounded as to wonder her strange question.

"This is the code." Aliza makes a drink that is mixing an alcoholic substance of some sort and an orange juice appearance, it looked like a juice beverage.

Aliza continues,

"Drink this. Then you'll know the code."

Claire cautiously looks at the juice beverage as drinking it all.

Then, she felt her neck was pressured and stiffened, puking blood all over the floor as struggling from the agony of eternal bleeding due to the burning sensation and acidity of the drink.

"What did… you… do.. to me?"

"Just a simple drink with a small dose of poison that can easily paralyze and gave you unbearable pain, causing internal bleeding from excessive acidity.

That way, you'll now understand my intentions.

This will be our short farewell for now."

As Aliza waves by and softly grins with a dark facade behind her watching Claire die, Claire's vision blurs as soon as she had lost another life.

It was filled with darkness all around, then a dim light is shown from the center, a mysterious girl calls out to Claire saying,

"Hello, I noticed you died 3 times."

Claire was a bit bewildered hearing a glitchy voice and seeing a darker appearance mixed in pitch black background as the girl speaking continued,

"I'll extend your saving slot in this save zone."

Claire asks,

"What's your name?

Actually, who are you exactly?"

With full hysteria, her sweat continues to drip from the cold fear of that little girl narrating her life like a code being read by a supercomputer.

The girl paused for a while in silence, she responds,

"I'm… death."

Suddenly, Claire sees the continue menu and loads the current saving point as many tentacles slowly cover and block her vision.

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Namae eventually wakes from for 5 days as having all the intel needed to gather and tell it to the founder for its good news.

"Founder! I have enough intel about the last protagonist."

"I see you've woken up. What's the news? I've been waiting."

"The last protagonist has 21 lives to spare to redo her mistakes and lost 3 of them based on my ability that I have gathered enough intel."

"I see, does she have an ability?"

"For now I am covering one of them. Annoyingly lucky is her first passive ability that can nullify all the worst dire situations into an opportunity to change."

"Where is she now?"

"In 10th district."

"What's her name?"

"Claire Valentine."